In the world of Stalinist crimes : Ukraine in the years of the purges and terror (1934-1938) from the Polish perspective / Robert Kuśnierz ; translated from Polish by Tomasz Krzysztof Blusiewicz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kuśnierz, Robert, 1977- author.

Series:

Monograph series (Peter Jacyk Centre for Ukrainian Historical Research) ; no. 10.

The Peter Jacyk Centre for Ukrainian Historical Research monograph series ; number ten

Standardized Title:

W świecie stalinowskich zbrodni. English

Language:

English

Polish

Subjects (All):

Poland. Ministerstwo Spraw Zagranicznych.

Poland.

Political purges--Ukraine--History--20th century.

Political purges.

Political persecution--Ukraine--History--20th century.

Political persecution.

History.

Ukraine--History--1921-1944.

Ukraine.

Ukraine--Politics and government--1917-1945.

Politics and government.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xxviii, 404 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Other Title:

Ukraine in the years of the purges and terror (1934-1938) from the Polish perspective

Place of Publication:

Edmonton ; Toronto : Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press, 2020.

Summary:

"The monograph presents an overview of the crimes of the Soviet Stalinist government in Ukraine in the years 1934-1938 seen through a unique perspective of the documents, reports, and analyses of the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Polish military intelligence. The book reflects what was known by the Polish civil and military authorities about the destruction of the Ukrainian countryside by the man-made Famine of 1932-33 (Holodomor) as well as the extent of the Communist Party purges and the Stalinist campaign of terror. The majority of the archival sources used in this monograph have not been studied by scholars in the past and some of these documents have been inaccessible. As a result, this book will be the first English-language study that will discuss the topic of the Stalinist crimes in Ukraine from this perspective."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 The Operational Conditions and Functioning of the Polish Consulates in Soviet Ukraine in the 1930s

1.1. The Position of Polish Consular Posts until 1936

1.2. Under Yezhov's Bloody Reign

1.2.1. The Dispute about the Provincial Press

1.2.2. The Consulates in Isolation: Potential Applicants Discouraged from Visiting

1.2.3. Violence and Provocations

1.2.4. Polish Countermeasures

1.2.4.1. Soviet Attempts to Recruit Polish Diplomatic and Consular Workers in the USSR

1.2.4.2. The Illusion of Normalization

1.3. Internal Relations in the Polish Consulates

1.4. The Position of Other Consular Posts

ch. 2 The Situation in the Countryside

2.1. The Soviet Countryside after the Great Famine

2.2. Conditions in the Collective Farms

2.3. "Improvement" in the Peasants' Situation

ch. 3 Everyday Life in Soviet Ukraine's Cities

3.1. The External Appearance of the Cities

3.1.1. Roads

3.2. The Living Conditions of the Soviet People

3.2.1. Queues

3.2.2. The Housing Problem

3.2.3. Prices and Wages

3.2.4. Restaurants and Dining Halls

3.3. The Stakhanovite Movement

3.3.1. "Maximum Exploitation of the Worker"

3.3.2. The Collapse the Stakhanovite Idea

3.3.3. The Workers' Attitude toward the Output Competition

3.3.4. Safety at Work

ch. 4 The Great Purge

4.1. Kirov's Murder and a New Wave of Purges

4.2. The Search for Trotskyites and Other "Enemies"

4.3. Repressions of Communist Dignitaries

4.4. The Social Climate and the Attitude toward Repressions of Party Members

4.4.1. Fear, Passivity, and Apathy

4.4.2. The Attitude toward Repressions of Communists

4.4.3. Word-of-Mouth Counter-Propaganda and Other Signs of Resistance

4.4.4. Waiting for War

4.5. Mass Repressions during the Yezhovshchina

4.6. Repressions in the Countryside

4.6.1. Public Trials

4.6.2. NKVD Operation no. 00447

4.7. Repressions of Polish People

4.8. The Persecution of Other Nationalities

ch. 5 Religious Persecution

5.1. "Religion Is the Opium of the People"

5.2. Polish Consular and Church Initiatives to Protect the Future of the Catholic Church

5.2.1. The Annihilation of the Church

5.3. The Persecution of Other Religions

5.3.1. The Orthodox Church

5.3.2. The Persecution of Lutheran Pastors and Jewish Rabbis

5.4. Participation in Religious Practices

ch. 6 Soviet Propaganda

6.1. Propaganda and Reality

6.1.1. Sovietization of the Polish National Minority

6.1.2. The Civil War in Spain

6.2. The Soviet Press as a Source of Information about the Country

6.3. The Constitution and Parliamentary Elections

6.4. People's Opinions of the Propaganda Campaigns.

Notes:

Translation of: W świecie stalinowskich zbrodni : Ukraina w latach czystek i terroru (1934-1938) w obserwacjach i analizach MSZ oraz wywiadu wojskowego Drugiej Rzeczypospolitej.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781894865579

189486557X

OCLC:

1127290554